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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942
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270 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 28 3. 14 items of precious metals (dental gold) as listed on the request for quotation No. 4362; the quotations have been analyzed and each item allocated to the firm quoting the lowest price on that item, with the following result: Thomas J. Dee & Company $1 927 43 General Refineries, Inc 878 15 Goldsmith Brothers Smelting and Refining Company 353 20 4. 50 No. L 460 E D dentoforms; 58 mink correlators; 54 sets upper and lower aluminal models; 56 aluminal dentoforms, upper j a w ; 250 ivorine teeth; —from the Columbia Dentoform Corporation of New York, at a total cost of $2,007. These items are non-competitive and are sold at established prices. 5. 300 dwts. Williams Special W20 Inlay Gold; 488 dwts. Williams Fortyniner Gold; 7 oz. Williams Technic Alloy No. 35;—from H . M. Dugan of Chicago, at a total cost of $1,162.33. T h i s material is non-competitive. 6. 65,000 gallons (approximately) gasoline from the Ohio Oil Company, the lowest bidder, at a total cost of approximately $6,600. 7. 500 cases tissue towels from W . B. Read and Company, Bloomington, Illinois, the lowest bidder, at a total cost of $1,600 f.o.b. Urbana. O n m o t i o n of M r . A d a m s , t h e s e p u r c h a s e s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d a s recommended. PURCHASES AUTHORIZED (9) A report of the following purchases authorized by the President of the University in accordance with the University Statutes: I. A collection in the fields of economics and business administration, for the Library, from a brokerage firm retiring from business, at a cost of $2,800 in addition to packing and shipping charges. This report was received for record. LEAVES OF ABSENCE (10) A recommendation that leaves of absence be granted the following members of the staff for the reasons and periods and under the conditions indicated in each case: Margaret Bates, Assistant Librarian in the Chicago Departments, two months' leave of absence from March 10, 1941, with pay. She was previously granted sick leave for four weeks from February 10. J. L. Bisesi, Special Research Associate in the Engineering Experiment Station on the Cooperative Rails Investigation, leave of absence without pay for two months from April 23, 1941, for the purpose of engaging in some special work~for the W a u g h Equipment Company. Josie B. Houchens, Binding Librarian, leave of absence without pay during the month of August, 1941 (in addition to her vacation allowance of one m o n t h ) , to enable her to teach in the summer session of the Columbia University Library School, which she has been doing for the past several years. On motion of Mr. Adams, these leaves were granted as recommended. CONTRACT CHANGE ORDER O N P.W.A. PROJECT (11) A recommendation from the Director of the Physical Plant Department that the following contract change order be authorized: Gregory Hall Contract Change Order No. 8 with the W. B. Read & Company for Equipment Group E-2. Item B—Johnson No. 1720W posture chair, special light oak finish $10 Item C—Chair No. 1519W Johnson, finish olive green enamel, to match sample 4 Item F-l—Costumer No. 81, olive green finish to match chair 5 Item F-2—Costumer No. 61, walnut finish 10 Total Deduction 00 10 00 50 $29 60
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